/newsletters/archives/grn-045.yml

---
edition: "045"
pubdate: "dec 15th 2013"
edito:
  "The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's just twice as big as it needs to be.<br>
  (just an unknown geek quote)."

topics:

- title: Look
  baseline:
    "Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things."
  links:

  - title: Depressed 404 
    url: "http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigarch/projects/sensornode/"
    comment: "Web server monologue on a 404 page."

  - title: Fixed digital agency 
    url: "http://fixedagency.com/"
    comment: "Nice scroll based creative presentation."

  - title: The verge 50 
    url: "http://www.theverge.com/a/the-verge-50"
    comment: "50 portraits of influencial people in 2013 (from an american pespective)."

  - title: isUserAMonkey 
    url: "http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey()"
    comment: "From the Android API, Returns true if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.."

- title: Use
  baseline:
    "Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier."
  links:

  - title: "Public APIs"
    url: "http://publicapis.com/"
    comment: "Thousands of APIs and public cloud web services."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "We work remotely"
    url: "https://weworkremotely.com/"
    comment: "A very active place for finding remote work or workers."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Prerender"
    url: "http://prerender.io"
    comment: "A service (with open source code) for prerendering js sites for SEO purposes."
    tags:
      - js

  - title: "Regex 101"
    url: "http://regex101.com/"
    comment: "An online regex tester for javascript, php, pcre and python."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Penflip"
    url: "https://www.penflip.com"
    comment: "A writing collaboration tool with version control, a little like hackpad but more github-oriented."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "O2 js style guide"
    url: "http://o2js.com/an-all-in-one-guide-to-writing-efficient-javascript"
    comment: "The JS coding conventions used for o2.js, if you need one."
    tags:
      - js

- title: Install
  baseline: "A selection of gems or applications updated during past week."
  links:

  - title: "Hub"
    url: "http://hub.github.com/"
    comment: "A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "RethinkDB"
    url: "http://www.rethinkdb.com/"
    comment: "This is a neat alternative to mongoDB, a NoSQL database that can do joins, and comes with very neat admin web interface."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Sublime Debugger"
    url: "https://github.com/shuky19/sublime_debugger"
    comment: "Interactive ruby debugger for sublimetext 3."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Uru"
    url: "https://bitbucket.org/jonforums/uru"
    comment: "Multi-platform Ruby version manager."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Purgatory"
    url: "https://github.com/financeit/purgatory"
    comment: "Save changes to an ActiveRecord model so that they can be applied at a later time."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Fudge"
    url: "https://github.com/Sage/fudge"
    comment: "A tool for enforcing code coverage and documentation in continuous integration."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Chef browser"
    url: "http://3ofcoins.net/2013/12/11/we-released-chef-browser-today/"
    comment: "A sinatra web application for browsing chef data."
    tags:
      - ops

  - title: "Lumberjack"
    url: "https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack"
    comment: "JavaScript utility that hijacks the browser console, makes it more beautiful."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Vagrant 1.4"
    url: "http://www.vagrantup.com/blog/vagrant-1-4.html"
    comment: "This new version includes a docker provisionner."
    tags:
      - ops

  - title: "Phantomas"
    url: "https://github.com/macbre/phantomas"
    comment: "PhantomJS-based web performance metrics collector and monitoring tool."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Qooxdoo"
    url: "http://news.qooxdoo.org/qooxdoo-3-5-released"
    comment: "Component-based js framework."
    tags:
      - js

- title: Read
  baseline: "From the blogosphere or news feeds ..."
  links:

  - title: "Chef: The Company Formerly Known as Opscode"
    url: "http://www.getchef.com/blog/2013/12/09/chef-the-company-formerly-known-as-opscode/"
    comment: "Opscode raised funds, and renames itself to Chef (or actually GetChef)."
    pubdate: dec 9
    tags:
      - ops

  - title: "Using Your Terminal From The DevTools"
    url: "http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/devtools-terminal/"
    comment: "A new Chrome DevTools extension that brings the power of the terminal to your browser."
    pubdate: dec 9
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: "Grunt for People Who Think Grunt is Hard"
    url: "http://24ways.org/2013/grunt-is-not-weird-and-hard/"
    comment: "A newbies guide to Grunt.js by Chris Coyer."
    pubdate: dec 11
    tags:
      - js

  - title: "Call to Action: Long running Ruby benchmark"
    url: "http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/12/11/call-to-action-long-running-ruby-benchmark"
    comment: "Sam Saffron calls to arm for establishing a ruby benchmarking platform."
    pubdate: dec 11
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Getting Started with AngularJS and Rails 4"
    url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/2013/12/11/beginners-guide-to-angular-js-rails"
    comment: "A step-by-step tutorial."
    pubdate: dec 11
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "CFEngine vs. Puppet vs. Chef vs. Ansible vs. Salt"
    url: "http://blog.normation.com/en/2013/12/12/cfengine-vs-puppet-vs-chef-vs-ansible-vs-salt/"
    comment: "A small reminder about the grand-father of devops tools."
    pubdate: dec 12
    tags:
      - ops

  - title: "Go for Rubyists"
    url: "http://www.sitepoint.com/go-rubyists/"
    comment: "Quick introduction to Go."
    pubdate: dec 12
    tags:
      - go

  - title: "A Deeper Look at Ruby's Enumerable"
    url: "http://rubylove.io/ruby/core/2013/12/14/a-deeper-look-at-rubys-enumerable-1/"
    comment: "Learn how to iterate over collections in a lazy manner."
    pubdate: dec 14
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: "Useful gems that work well with rails 4"
    url: "http://www.neblit.com/blog/39-useful-gems-that-work-well-with-rails-4"
    comment: "A list of verified Gems that play well with the new rails."
    pubdate: dec 15
    tags:
      - rb

- title: Watch
  baseline: "Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ..."
  links:

  - title: "Docker at Spotify"
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pts6F00GFuU"
    comment: "Quick presentation of how docker is used at spotify."
    pubdate: dec 11
    duration: 11m
    tags:
      - ops

- title: Listen
  baseline: What could be heard last week ..
  links:

  - title: "Giant robots 78"
    url: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots/78
    duration: 28m
    pubdate: dec 9
    comment: "Chris Lindland, CEO of Betabrand.com about online fashion, self-generating product and dress-pant-sweatpants."
    tags:
      - tool

  - title: Ruby5 425
    url: http://ruby5.envylabs.com/episodes/461-episode-425-december-10th-2013
    duration: 6m
    pubdate: dec 10
    comment: "ActionParameter, purgatory, promise.rb, rails session, jruby 1.7.9."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: RubyRogues 135
    url: http://rubyrogues.com/135-rr-http-2-0-with-ilya-grigorik/
    duration: 1h09
    pubdate: dec 11
    comment: "HTTP 2.0 with Ilya Grigorik."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: Ruby5 426
    url: http://ruby5.envylabs.com/episodes/462-episode-426-december-13th-2013
    duration: 5m
    pubdate: dec 13
    comment: "Thoughtbot on SO, verifying doubles, stagehand, bundler, roar."
    tags:
      - rb

  - title: Javascript Jabber 087
    url: http://javascriptjabber.com/087-jsj-tc39-with-alex-russell/
    duration: 1h
    pubdate: dec 13
    comment: "TC39 (Ecmascript) with Alex Russell."
    tags:
      - js